Third Grade

Unit 2 | Activity 5

Activity 5:

5-1

Dallas, 1955
"Protesting segregation of the Texas state fair"--R.C. Hickman

Ckick to view larger image
5-2

TITLE: "Negro going in colored entrance of movie house on Saturday afternoon, Belzoni, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi"
CALL NUMBER: LC-USF33- 030577-M2 [P&P]
REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsca-12888
CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1939 Oct.?
CREATOR: Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer.

Ckick to view larger imag
5-3

Philadelphia, 1889: Removing an African American from a Philadelphia Railway car--after the implementation of Jim Crow, the integration imposed by Reconstruction was stripped away by new laws.

Ckick to view larger imag
5-4

5-5

Imperial Laundry, 1930s. Image courtesy of Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library.

Ckick to view larger imag
5-6

"Negro drinking at 'Colored' water cooler in streetcar terminal, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1939". Image courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection, [reproduction number, LC-USZ62-80126]

Ckick to view larger imag
5-7

"Oklahoma Cotton Field. Overseer and Negro cotton pickers, ca. 1897-98, ca. 1897 - ca. 1898." US National Archives & Records Administration, item from Record Group 48: Records of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior, 1826 – 1981 [electronic resource]

Ckick to view larger imag
5-8

Washington County, Mississippi. Delta-Pine Land Company. "[African-American woman] picking cotton on Delta land that yielded an average of two bushels per acre, 1941". US National Archives & Records Administration, item from Record Group 16: Records of the Office of the Secretary of Agriculture, 1839 - 1981 [electronic resource].

Ckick to view larger imag
5-9

"Harmony Community, Putnam County, Georgia. Here is a representative sample of the dwellings in which Negro tenants live. Though they vary in shape and construction, all are too small for the number of people living in them, poorly furnished, unpainted and in bad repair, 1941". US National Archives & Records Administration, item from Record Group 83: Records of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, 1876 – 1959 [electronic resource].

Ckick to view larger imag
5-10

African American Boy standing with horse. Image courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division.

Ckick to view larger imag
5-11

Three women and one man hoeing in field. Image courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division.

Ckick to view larger imag
5-12

5-13

Recent News

Bringing History Home in 2021

Since its beginning 20 years ago, Bringing History Home has had profound positive impacts on teachers and
Read More
 

Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the Classroom

For several years, I have encouraged pre-service teachers to incorporate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into

Read More
 
Grant Wood History Institute